‘U.S. News’ says it has shifted rankings to focus on social mobility, but has it?

For years, critics of the college rankings of U.S. News & World Report have said that they reward prestige and wealth. The institutions that are always on the top of the rankings — places like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford Universities — enroll students who are destined to succeed, the critics say. It should be no surprise (and not worthy of praise) that the students then do well.